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Modding "Crafting to Improve Craft Quality" in A17 *HELP NEEDED*

Spider

Spider

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I thought I had this licked but have been stuck on this one part and I'm tired of looking at it. So I thought someone else might be able to help. I have not been able to direct XP to a Perk or Skill like we could in A16 so heres what I've done to mimick it.

I am using quest to keep track of the crafting. 6 Quest that will need 25,50,100,200,(250,250) specific items crafted to get max lv 6 crafting. Total = 875 items

Code: 
<!--BoneShiv--> 
<quest id="tsquest_BoneShivCraftingLv1">
	<property name="name_key" value="tsquest_BoneShivCrafting" />
	<property name="subtitle_key" value="tsquest_Lv1Crafting_subtitle" />
	<property name="description_key" value="tsquest_Lv1Crafting_description" />
	<property name="icon" value="ui_game_symbol_map_bed" />
	<property name="category_key" value="quest" />
	<property name="difficulty" value="veryeasy"/>
	<property name="shareable" value="false" />

	<objective type="Craft">
		<property name="phase" value="1" />
		<property name="item" value="meleeBoneShiv" />
		<property name="count" value="3" /><!--25-->
	</objective>

	<objective type="Goto" id="trader" value="5" phase="2" />

	<objective type="InteractWithNPC">
		<property name="phase" value="3" />
	</objective>
	<reward type="Item" id="tsBoneShivCraftingBook" value="1" />
	<reward type="Quest" id="tsquest_BoneShivCraftingLv2" />
   </quest>
<quest id="tsquest_BoneShivCraftingLv2">
	<property name="name_key" value="tsquest_BoneShivCrafting" />
	<property name="subtitle_key" value="tsquest_Lv2Crafting_subtitle" />
	<property name="description_key" value="tsquest_Lv2Crafting_description" />
	<property name="icon" value="ui_game_symbol_map_bed" />
	<property name="category_key" value="quest" />
	<property name="difficulty" value="veryeasy"/>
	<property name="shareable" value="false" />

	<objective type="Craft">
		<property name="phase" value="1" />
		<property name="item" value="meleeBoneShiv" />
		<property name="count" value="3" /><!--50-->
	</objective>

	<objective type="Goto" id="trader" value="5" phase="2" />

	<objective type="InteractWithNPC">
		<property name="phase" value="3" />
	</objective>
	<reward type="Item" id="tsBoneShivCraftingBook" value="1" />
	<reward type="Quest" id="tsquest_BoneShivCraftingLv3" />
   </quest>
<quest id="tsquest_BoneShivCraftingLv3">
	<property name="name_key" value="tsquest_BoneShivCrafting" />
	<property name="subtitle_key" value="tsquest_Lv3Crafting_subtitle" />
	<property name="description_key" value="tsquest_Lv3Crafting_description" />
	<property name="icon" value="ui_game_symbol_map_bed" />
	<property name="category_key" value="quest" />
	<property name="difficulty" value="veryeasy"/>
	<property name="shareable" value="false" />

	<objective type="Craft">
		<property name="phase" value="1" />
		<property name="item" value="meleeBoneShiv" />
		<property name="count" value="3" /><!--100-->
	</objective>

	<objective type="Goto" id="trader" value="5" phase="2" />

	<objective type="InteractWithNPC">
		<property name="phase" value="3" />
	</objective>
	<reward type="Item" id="tsBoneShivCraftingBook" value="1" />
	<reward type="Quest" id="tsquest_BoneShivCraftingLv4" />
   </quest>
<quest id="tsquest_BoneShivCraftingLv4">
	<property name="name_key" value="tsquest_BoneShivCrafting" />
	<property name="subtitle_key" value="tsquest_Lv4Crafting_subtitle" />
	<property name="description_key" value="tsquest_Lv4Crafting_description" />
	<property name="icon" value="ui_game_symbol_map_bed" />
	<property name="category_key" value="quest" />
	<property name="difficulty" value="veryeasy"/>
	<property name="shareable" value="false" />

	<objective type="Craft">
		<property name="phase" value="1" />
		<property name="item" value="meleeBoneShiv" />
		<property name="count" value="3" /><!--200-->
	</objective>

	<objective type="Goto" id="trader" value="5" phase="2" />

	<objective type="InteractWithNPC">
		<property name="phase" value="3" />
	</objective>
	<reward type="Item" id="tsBoneShivCraftingBook" value="1" />
	<reward type="Quest" id="tsquest_BoneShivCraftingLv5Pt1" />
   </quest>
<quest id="tsquest_BoneShivCraftingLv5Pt1">
	<property name="name_key" value="tsquest_BoneShivCrafting" />
	<property name="subtitle_key" value="tsquest_Lv5Crafting_subtitle" />
	<property name="description_key" value="tsquest_Lv5Crafting_description" />
	<property name="icon" value="ui_game_symbol_map_bed" />
	<property name="category_key" value="quest" />
	<property name="difficulty" value="veryeasy"/>
	<property name="shareable" value="false" />

	<objective type="Craft">
		<property name="phase" value="1" />
		<property name="item" value="meleeBoneShiv" />
		<property name="count" value="3" /><!--250-->
	</objective>

	<reward type="Quest" id="tsquest_BoneShivCraftingLv5Pt2" />
</quest>
<quest id="tsquest_BoneShivCraftingLv5Pt2">
	<property name="name_key" value="tsquest_BoneShivCrafting" />
	<property name="subtitle_key" value="tsquest_Lv6Crafting_subtitle" />
	<property name="description_key" value="tsquest_Lv5Crafting_description" />
	<property name="icon" value="ui_game_symbol_map_bed" />
	<property name="category_key" value="quest" />
	<property name="difficulty" value="veryeasy"/>
	<property name="shareable" value="false" />

	<objective type="Craft">
		<property name="phase" value="1" />
		<property name="item" value="meleeBoneShiv" />
		<property name="count" value="3" /><!--250-->
	</objective>

	<objective type="Goto" id="trader" value="5" phase="2" />

	<objective type="InteractWithNPC">
		<property name="phase" value="3" />
	</objective>
	<reward type="Item" id="tsBoneShivCraftingBook" value="1" />
</quest>
When you complete a section of the quest you get this item that will give you a buff

Code: 
<item name="tsBoneShivCraftingBook">
<property name="DescriptionKey" value="tsCraftingSkillMaster"/> 
<property name="CreativeMode" value="None"/>
<property name="HoldType" value="21"/>
<property name="Meshfile" value="Items/Misc/bookPrefab"/>
<property name="DropMeshfile" value="Items/Misc/sack_droppedPrefab"/>
<property name="Material" value="Mpaper"/>
<property name="Weight" value="5"/>
<property name="FuelValue" value="5"/>
<property name="Stacknumber" value="1"/> 
<property name="EconomicValue" value="0"/>
<property name="Group" value="Books"/>
<property class="Action0">
<property name="Class" value="Eat"/>
	<property name="Consume" value="true"/>
	<property name="Delay" value="1.0"/>
	<property name="Use_time" value="..."/>
	<property name="ActionExpBonusMultiplier" value="0"/> 
	<property name="Sound_start" value="recipe_unlocked"/>
</property>
<property name="Group" value="Science"/>

<effect_group tiered="false">
	<triggered_effect trigger="onSelfPrimaryActionEnd" action="AddBuff" target="self" buff="tsbuffBoneShivCraftingPerkLv"/>
</effect_group>
</item>
 
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The buff ticks a perk

Code: 
<!--Bone Shiv-->
<buff name="tsbuffBoneShivCraftingPerkLv" hidden="true">
	<stack_type value="ignore"/>
	<duration value="3"/>
	<effect_group>
		<triggered_effect trigger="onSelfBuffStart" action="AddBuff" target="self" buff="tsSkillLvBoneShiv5">
			<requirement name="ProgressionLevel" progression_name="tsperkBoneShivCrafting" operation="Equals" value="4"/></triggered_effect>
		<triggered_effect trigger="onSelfBuffStart" action="AddBuff" target="self" buff="tsSkillLvBoneShiv4">
			<requirement name="ProgressionLevel" progression_name="tsperkBoneShivCrafting" operation="Equals" value="3"/></triggered_effect>
		<triggered_effect trigger="onSelfBuffStart" action="AddBuff" target="self" buff="tsSkillLvBoneShiv3">
			<requirement name="ProgressionLevel" progression_name="tsperkBoneShivCrafting" operation="Equals" value="2"/></triggered_effect>
		<triggered_effect trigger="onSelfBuffStart" action="AddBuff" target="self" buff="tsSkillLvBoneShiv2">
			<requirement name="ProgressionLevel" progression_name="tsperkBoneShivCrafting" operation="Equals" value="1"/></triggered_effect>
		<triggered_effect trigger="onSelfBuffStart" action="AddBuff" target="self" buff="tsSkillLvBoneShiv1">
			<requirement name="ProgressionLevel" progression_name="tsperkBoneShivCrafting" operation="Equals" value="0"/></triggered_effect>
	</effect_group>
</buff>
<buff name="tsSkillLvBoneShiv1" hidden="true" remove_on_death="false" >
	<stack_type value="ignore"/>
	<duration value="0"/>
	<effect_group>
		<passive_effect name="PerkLevel" operation="base_add" value="1" tags="tsperkBoneShivCrafting"/>
	</effect_group>
</buff>
<buff name="tsSkillLvBoneShiv2" hidden="true" remove_on_death="false" >
	<stack_type value="ignore"/>
	<duration value="0"/>
	<effect_group>
		<passive_effect name="PerkLevel" operation="base_add" value="2" tags="tsperkBoneShivCrafting"/>
		<triggered_effect trigger="onSelfBuffStart" action="RemoveBuff" target="self" buff="tsSkillLvBoneShiv1"/>
	</effect_group>
</buff>
<buff name="tsSkillLvBoneShiv3" hidden="true" remove_on_death="false" >
	<stack_type value="ignore"/>
	<duration value="0"/>
	<effect_group>
		<passive_effect name="PerkLevel" operation="base_add" value="3" tags="tsperkBoneShivCrafting"/>
		<triggered_effect trigger="onSelfBuffStart" action="RemoveBuff" target="self" buff="tsSkillLvBoneShiv2"/>
	</effect_group>
</buff>
<buff name="tsSkillLvBoneShiv4" hidden="true" remove_on_death="false" >
	<stack_type value="ignore"/>
	<duration value="0"/>
	<effect_group>
		<passive_effect name="PerkLevel" operation="base_add" value="4" tags="tsperkBoneShivCrafting"/>
		<triggered_effect trigger="onSelfBuffStart" action="RemoveBuff" target="self" buff="tsSkillLvBoneShiv3"/>
	</effect_group>
</buff>
<buff name="tsSkillLvBoneShiv5" hidden="true" remove_on_death="false" >
	<stack_type value="ignore"/>
	<duration value="0"/>
	<effect_group>
		<passive_effect name="PerkLevel" operation="base_add" value="5" tags="tsperkBoneShivCrafting"/>
		<triggered_effect trigger="onSelfBuffStart" action="RemoveBuff" target="self" buff="tsSkillLvBoneShiv4"/>
	</effect_group>
</buff>
And the perk grants the item higher crafting quality and displays info for the player

Code: 
<perk name="tsperkBoneShivCrafting" parent="skillStealth" base_skill_point_cost="0" name_key="tsperkBoneShivCrafting" desc_key="tsperkLv1Crafting_description" icon="ui_game_symbol_bat"><!---->
	<effect_group>
		<requirement tags="boneShivCrafting"/>
		<passive_effect name="CraftingTime" target_tags="boneShivCrafting" operation="perc_subtract" value="0.0" level="0"/>
		<passive_effect name="CraftingTime" target_tags="boneShivCrafting" operation="perc_subtract" value="0.1" level="1"/>
		<passive_effect name="CraftingTime" target_tags="boneShivCrafting" operation="perc_subtract" value="0.2" level="2"/>
		<passive_effect name="CraftingTime" target_tags="boneShivCrafting" operation="perc_subtract" value="0.3" level="3"/>
		<passive_effect name="CraftingTime" target_tags="boneShivCrafting" operation="perc_subtract" value="0.4" level="4"/>
		<passive_effect name="CraftingTime" target_tags="boneShivCrafting" operation="perc_subtract" value="0.5" level="5"/>

		<passive_effect name="CraftingTier" target_tags="boneShivCrafting" operation="base_set" value="1" level="0" />
		<passive_effect name="CraftingTier" target_tags="boneShivCrafting" operation="base_set" value="2" level="1" />
		<passive_effect name="CraftingTier" target_tags="boneShivCrafting" operation="base_set" value="3" level="2" />
		<passive_effect name="CraftingTier" target_tags="boneShivCrafting" operation="base_set" value="4" level="3" />
		<passive_effect name="CraftingTier" target_tags="boneShivCrafting" operation="base_set" value="5" level="4" />
		<passive_effect name="CraftingTier" target_tags="boneShivCrafting" operation="base_set" value="6" level="5" />

		<effect_description level="1" desc_key="tsperkCraftingSkillRank1Desc"/>
		<effect_description level="2" desc_key="tsperkCraftingSkillRank2Desc"/>
		<effect_description level="3" desc_key="tsperkCraftingSkillRank3Desc"/>
		<effect_description level="4" desc_key="tsperkCraftingSkillRank4Desc"/>
		<effect_description level="5" desc_key="tsperkCraftingSkillRank5Desc"/>
	</effect_group>
</perk>
And the Item is taged

Code: 
<item name="meleeBoneShiv">
<property name="Tags" value="knife,melee,light,weapon,meleeWeapon,perkDeepCuts,perkTheHuntsman,boneShivCrafting"/>
.
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Everything works great but I cant get the perk to only apply to the item that's taged. Any help would be appreciated because we need back our crafting to improve quality system

 
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Does it not work at all? Or does it just apply to every single item?

Because I THINK CraftingTier is hard-coded. If you look at the playerMale entity, it's considered a "stat."

 
Yeah, I think it's just increasing the CraftingTier stat on the player.

Code: 
<passive_effect name="CraftingTier" operation="base_set" value="1"/>
You may need to make a new CVar that works in the same way but only applies to certain things.

 
I don't know of any way to effect crafting quality from a buff. That line of code is from the Intellect Skill, I just added the target_tags unsuccessfully trying to limit its effect to one item. I tried it a few ways and couldn't get a syntax that worked.

 
I have been having a look into this today as well since Scavengers RELIES on only levelling your tools and weapons through usage and crafting. Its not looking good boys :(

 
CraftingSkillExp and CraftingSkillGroup still exist in the DLL.

What's annoying is we don't have a way to hook them into skills, then to be displayed and I don't see a way to tie that to item quality either. >_<

 
I also tried making old skills and using the CraftingSkillExp and CraftingSkillGroup but it doesn't seem to work. If they are in the dll maybe they just disconnected them and we could get one of our super awesome script writers to slide in the dll and hook it back up because this new progression system is like a poor badly made Chinese version of Fallout. I feel like their new target market must be 12 year old Fortnite players now. They had a unique game with unique features that they ironed out over 5 years now and they decided to toss all that work out the window so they could be cool and jump on the trendy pew, pew, pew band wagon. It makes me sad to see this good game slide into mediocrity like so many others. I just hope us modders can fix it.

@Guppy-

I can use all the cvars I want but we still need a way to have the changes to CraftTier only apply to a selected item, that's the snag right now. Also Action Skills like in A16 are doable with something like I have above. And it might be even a little better than in A16 because you could level blunt weapons just hitting a wall or dirt in A16 now you could use quest to only give credit for zombie kills with a selected weapon and then using the

Code: 
<requirement name="HoldingItemHasTags" tags="TAGHERE"/>
only have the benefits effect that weapon.

 
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Just wanted to bump this thread with some stuff I learned...

You can skip the buff section applying the duration=0 "temporary" passive_effect skill raise, adding this to the book item will permanently raise the perk by one point

Code: 
<property class="Action0">
<property name="Class" value="GainSkill"/>
<property name="Skills_to_gain" value="tsperkBoneShivCrafting"/>
</property>
As for getting it to apply on item it looks like you figured it out, but I think target_tags is only for triggered_effects. Using the following should work, shouldn't it?

Code: 
<requirement name="HoldingItemHasTags" tags="boneShivCrafting"/>
<passive_effect name="CraftingTime" operation="perc_subtract" value="0.0" level="0"/>
<passive_effect name="CraftingTime" operation="perc_subtract" value="0.1" level="1"/>
<passive_effect name="CraftingTime" operation="perc_subtract" value="0.2" level="2"/>
<passive_effect name="CraftingTime" operation="perc_subtract" value="0.3" level="3"/>
<passive_effect name="CraftingTime" operation="perc_subtract" value="0.4" level="4"/>
<passive_effect name="CraftingTime" operation="perc_subtract" value="0.5" level="5"/>

<passive_effect name="CraftingTier" operation="base_set" value="1" level="0" />
<passive_effect name="CraftingTier" operation="base_set" value="2" level="1" />
<passive_effect name="CraftingTier" operation="base_set" value="3" level="2" />
<passive_effect name="CraftingTier" operation="base_set" value="4" level="3" />
<passive_effect name="CraftingTier" operation="base_set" value="5" level="4" />
<passive_effect name="CraftingTier" operation="base_set" value="6" level="5" />
 
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